Pat Croce, Wachovia CEO Go For The Gold

As far as major things to happen in Philadelphia, getting the freakin’ Olympics would be pretty huge. Regardless of how one feels about the bid, having the 2016 Olympics in Philadelphia would be a tremendous undertaking for the city.

Well, Pat Croce and Hugh Long (the Wachovia State CEO for Pa. and Del.) really, really, really want the Olympics to be in Philadelphia, and they think it would be perhaps the biggest thing to ever happen:

Where would Philadelphia - indeed the nation - be today if the framers of the Constitution heeded those who said it wouldn’t work, and they were dreamers?

Where would we be today if Ben Franklin listened to those who said Philadelphia didn’t need and couldn’t afford a free library, a hospital, a volunteer fire company, each the first of their kind in the nation?

And you certainly wouldn’t be reading this online if the creators of ENIAC, the world’s first computer, invented at the University of Pennsylvania, paid attention to those who said they were crazy, and the machine, while clever, had little practical application.

And, where, indeed, would we all be if God hadn’t decided to make the world? Certainly not bidding for the Olympics, that’s what!

Also: did the scientists who created ENIAC really have a jeering section while they were making it?

OLYMPIC DREAM: A PHILLY-STYLE CHALLENGE [Daily News]